On 29 Apr 2017, at 16:13, Richard L. Hamilton <[email protected]> wrote: > > In favor of getting rid of it, the pre-built binaries (much faster to install > or upgrade) aren't built +universal; so if you get rid of it, you'll often > get them. Some things aren't pre-built, so you won't always get them, but > it's still way faster. > > There may be some ports or port options that need i386 (I don't know), but > they should do the right thing. (that's not based on massive familiarity, so > someone that knows more than I may know of exceptions to that statement) > > I would _guess_ therefore, that it would only matter if you have i386 code of > your own that links with libraries provided by MacPorts. You'd be the one > that would know that.
Many thanks for this, Richard. You’re more or less confirming what I think myself. I’ve not created any i386 code personally so after the weekend I’ll probably decide to to stick with just x86_64. No reply needed and I’m very grateful for your reply. Barrie.
